Apparently to be considered an "expert" on the rape culture in our military by ABC's Martha Raddatz, you have to be someone with former military experience, like our good buddy Sen. John McCrashy, or so it seems after watching her interview with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on This Week.

The top Republican and Democrat on the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs are demanding more information from defense Secretary Chuck Hagel about lost Army field records from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Army National Guardsmen serving in Kabul, Afghanistan in a war that many have forgotten, took the time this week to hold a flag raising ceremony to honor the children and staff who lost their lives at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Once again, the number of suicides among soldiers outnumbered combat-related deaths for the year.
Stars and Stripes:
Through November this year, potentially 303 active-duty, Reserve and National Guard soldiers took their own lives. In

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We are the Invisible Army of Defaulters. We are your neighbors. We are your family, your friends. We are millions. We are everywhere. We are going to bring the system to its knees. We can, because we wield the one power that all the armies of the world can never defeat: The power of refusal...

The suicide rate is skyrocketing among American troops as numbers have reached nearly one per day in 2012, according to new Pentagon data revealed in a report on Thursday. Over the first 155 days of 2012 154 active-duty troops have

On a CSPAN broadcast posted by Rep. Nunes on 03/21/10, during President Obama's health care debate, Devin Nunes defended racist tea part protesters saying, "people that have every right to say what they want."

On Tuesday's The 700 Club, Pat Robertson launched into a homophobic rant against the LGBTQ community, blaming them for all the problems we face as a nation saying, "The people run amok and we have gone to the point where God will give [...]